2018 American Transplant Congress
Unique Recipient Benefits with Paired Kidney Donation
Introduction: Kidney transplantation is the treatment choice for ESRD with improved survival and cost benefit compared with dialysis. The imbalance of supply over demand along…2018 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Impacts of Deceased Donor Oxygenation Status in Liver Transplant
Background: PaO2/FiO2 (P/F) ratio of > 300 mmHg in donors is a criterion of standard lung donors, while several studies demonstrated that the utilization of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Desensitization to Facilitate Matching in a Large, National Kidney Paired Exchange Clearinghouse
In kidney paired exchange (KPE) programs, the use of incompatible transplantation has been necessary to prevent long waiting times for sensitized candidates and to facilitate…2018 American Transplant Congress
Excellent Long Term Outcomes Transplanting Single Pediatric Kidneys from Donors Five Years and Younger into Adult Recipients
Pediatric kidneys have been traditionally considered marginal organs for transplantation & are underutilized given concerns of poor outcomes. Furthermore, long term outcomes of single kidneys…2018 American Transplant Congress
Do High-Risk Categories Convey the Wrong Message to Waitlisted Patients – Is It Time to Reconsider the Absolute Risk of Graft Loss?
Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Many waitlisted patients (pts) do not consent to accept livers from “high-risk” donors (HRD), possibly due to lack of understanding of the absolute risk (AR)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Center Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT) as an Enhancement to the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors
Purpose: The LDAT is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluations (PsychE). It assesses motivation, LD knowledge/expectations, support, closeness…2018 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Patient Education to Improve the Inpatient Experience for Living Donors
Transplant Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: Although the number of living organ donors is small, their altruistic sacrifice requires a dedicated approach to meet their unique needs. Living donors (LD)…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Continuous Debate of Older Donors into Older Recipients: Another Angle
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: Heart transplantation (HTx) remains limited by donor availability. Many programs accept older donors (≥50 yrs) for older recipients (≥ 60 yrs) in an effort…2018 American Transplant Congress
Increased Length of Stay of the Donor Decreases Heart Transplant Recipient Survival
Purpose: We hypothesize that the longer the cardiac donor is in the hospital prior to procurement, the worse the heart transplant (tx) recipient outcome for…2018 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Efficacy of Eculizumab for Prevention of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients
DGF portends poor short- and long-term renal function, increases cost, and may reduce graft survival. We studied the safety/efficacy of eculizumab (ECU), a C5 convertase…
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